Re: [PATCH 1/5] Renaming weak prng invocations - prandom_bytes_state, prandom_u32_state
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <hidden>
Date: 2022-12-14 12:36:22
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
Please CC me on future revisions. As of 6.2, the prandom namespace is *only* for predictable randomness. There's no need to rename anything. So nack on this patch 1/5.
It is not obvious (for casual developers like me) that p in prandom stands for predictable. Some renaming would be useful IMHO. Regards Stanislaw